tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009643355982117276.post5251505349273458797..comments2023-11-18T20:46:14.848+00:00Comments on James Marchington: Into the lions' denJames Marchingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08109578008088776428noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009643355982117276.post-17916140368946233632010-10-24T13:58:48.589+01:002010-10-24T13:58:48.589+01:00I don't know how good our organisations are at...I don't know how good our organisations are at putting what we do across to the media. They could be issuing hundreds of postitive press releases, but the press can choose to ignore them. BASC did a lot to quell the hysteria surrounding guns after the Cumbrian shootings- but then everyone wanted to talk to them. A keeper building up his grey partridge and songbird numbers and managing a succesful commercial shoot which supplies local restaurants whilst living with a healthy buzzard population would never be headline news to the rest of the world no matter how loudly we shouted. The press like bad news....gamekeepers kill eagle is going to attract them more readers, listeners or viewers than gamekeeper doesn't kill eagle! We might get heard if our organistations fed the media nasty stories about RSPB reserves or nest failures but then we'd be sinking to their level....vickynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009643355982117276.post-30440504255730952912010-10-23T14:40:37.331+01:002010-10-23T14:40:37.331+01:00Sad that they should have a go at someone like you...Sad that they should have a go at someone like you James,surely they ought to listen and see if they can gain anything.My guess is that the moderates in the organisations you mention would like to come to some solution if at all possible but the outspoken ones in each organisation do not want compromise and they cannot see that for centuries what they are demanding has not worked and with these big spending cuts what chance of things improving.<br />Think they need to study one fact which is that of all crimes whatever they are one in ninety six criminals go to jail,what sort of a deterrent to B O P crime is that.Some other solution just has to be found.Sootynoreply@blogger.com